According to ESPN.com, the Cowboys will replace fired special teams coach Bruce Read with Joe DeCamillis, who spent the last two seasons with Jacksonville but is reportedly unhappy with the contract he’s been offered. DeCamillis is a 20-year NFL coaching veteran who has spent the last 16 seasons coaching special teams.
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The Cowboys fired special teams coach Bruce Read, but all the blame for their woes in that area can’t be put on his shoulders. Because of coverage issues, coach Wade Phillips instructed Nick Folk to employ directional kicking, meaning he kicked the ball high and to the corners. The strategy often backfired, resulting in Folk […]
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Bruce Read was a dead man walking from the moment the Cardinals blocked beat the Cowboys in overtime on Oct. 12 with a blocked punt that resulted in a touchdown. Read had the look of someone who expected to be canned when we interviewed him in the locker room afterward. In addition to the blocked […]
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The Cowboys have fired special teams coach Bruce Read, the first major change of what could be a tumultuous offseason for the team. Dallas was awful on special teams throughout the season. The weakness was highlighted in the second-to-the-last game when Baltimore gained a crucial first down on a fake field goal. Read just completed […]
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I don’t think it will happen, but there is a lot of speculation about it since Denver canned the two-time Super Bowl champion coach yesterday. Two of ESPN’s finest, Chris Mortensen and Mike Mosley, have mentioned it, as well as Yahoo.com’s Jason Cole, who really thinks Shanahan, a tough disciplinarian and a sharp offensive mind, […]
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Early indications are that the Cowboys will spend their entire training camp in San Antonio rather than splitting time between the Alamo City and Oxnard, Calif. Jerry Jones said last summer he would like to train in both cities, but city official Jim Mery says there has been no mention of Oxnard in his conversations […]
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Wade Phillips is still formulating his get-tough plan for ’09, but he made it clear in a radio interview today he won’t be dog cussin’ anybody or publicly humiliating players ala Bill Parcells. Basically, it’s all about making players more accountable by having more rules, fines, etc. “You just make consequences for certain things that […]
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IRVING – NBC analyst John Madden didn’t pull any punches when talking about the train-wreck that is the Dallas Cowboys. “I didn’t see them as one of the teams anyone had to worry about,” Madden said today in a conference call. “The program, the system, the people didn’t work.” In other words, they’re a mess […]
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IRVING – Both literally and figuratively. Ever since Wade Phillips took over, it looks like a college dorm room with clothes scattered everywhere and no sense of discipline and order. But that’s not the worst thing. It’s inhabited by too many bad actors, low-character guys and locker-room lawyers. “There were a lot of personalities put […]
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